Ali
Dashti was born in 1896 in a village in Dashtestan, a district
adjoining the port of Bushehr on the Persian Gulf in Iran. His
father brought the Ali Dashti to Karbala in Iraq and lodged him in
madrasa for training in Islamic and theological studies so that he
could become a cleric. He received a full madrasas education
acquiring a thorough knowledge of Islamic theology and history,
logic, rhetoric, and Arabic and Persian grammar and classical
literature. But realizing what Islam was all about as this book will
reveal ― he chose not to undertake a clerical career, when he
returned to Iran.

Instead, he became an author and novelists
and a parliamentarian. After the Islamic revolution in 1979 in Iran,
he was arrested and tortured the Khomeinis which left with a broken
thigh. He was release but not allowed to return to home at Zargandeh,
a northern suburb of Tehran. A notice in the Iranian periodical
Ayanda reported his death in the month of Dey of the Iranian year
1360, i.e. between 22 December 1981 and 20 January 1982.